ORANGE COUNTY, CA / ACCESSWIRE / February 23, 2017 / In early February, Forbes reported that over the course of 2016, personalized content inside push notifications boosted user engagement with mobile apps by four times. In addition, custom send times for these notifications based on when the user is most active raised retention rates by over 400%. Modern marketing expert Nick Kohlschreiber predicts that as developers continue to understand how customers interact with their favorite apps and integrate more automation tools using artificial intelligence, these "Smart Apps" will come to define mobile advertising strategies.
Driven by new marketing centric technologies including chatbots, predictive analytics, and intelligent automation, these innovative applications are creating a fundamental shift in how consumers interact with their mobile devices. Modern apps already have the ability to personalize content down to the individual user, as opposed to broader segments. With advanced predictive analytics, a customer's desires will soon be anticipated before they are even expressed. Some of the most widely used apps in the world, including Amazon, Foursquare and Last.fm, are already taking advantage of this powerful technology on a daily basis with product, destination and music recommendations based on recent activity. Thanks to complex algorithms of previous user choices and interactions, Nick Kohlschreiber predicts that smart apps will soon be able to suggest relevant content at the precise time the consumer is most likely to engage.
With more smartphone owners and app downloads than ever before, 2016 yielded an explosion of consumer data. Utilizing this, mobile teams are rapidly innovating and significantly improving their end experience by intelligently engaging users throughout their lifecycle. Chatbots with the ability to get smarter over time are empowering marketers to reach potential customers with speedy, millennial-friendly responses that are driving both app interactions and sales. Relatively easy to incorporate into a mobile marketing strategy, i.e. Facebook Messenger or Slack, chatbots have also been propelled by the shift in smartphone communication from voice to text and images. Coinciding with this, Kohlschreiber expects to see vast changes in automated messaging campaigns, beginning with personalized parameters. Customization - backed by powerful data - has the potential to touch every key mobile marketing metric. Launching personalized campaigns with approachable content will improve user conversions, reduce acquisition spending, and drive ROI across the board.